Does Madea's Witness Protection Mark the Mainstreaming of Tyler Perry's Iconic Character?
For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry's Madea is little more than a mammy -- an insult to the matriarchal community figure Perry claims to celebrate. And unforgivably, when compared to Flip Wilson's Geraldine or even Martin Lawrence's Big Momma,......